Weekly science calendar

Submitted by Center for Global Change
Phone: (907) 474-5818
01/26/07

Monday, Jan. 29

4-5 p.m. - 202 Natural Sciences Facility
Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry faculty candidate seminar
Iron-Based Bimetallic Reductants for Treatment of Halogenated Organic Solvents
David Cwiertny, University of Iowa, candidate for Environmental/Analytical Chemistry position
Information: (907) 474-5510

Tuesday, Jan. 30

1:15-2:15 p.m. - Elvey Auditorium, 214 Elvey Building
AQC Bering Sea Seminar Series, sponsored by the Alaska Quaternary Center, College of Natural Sciences and Mathematics, and the Chapman Professorship
Overview of the Modern Bering Sea
Peter McRoy, Institute of Marine Science, SFOS, UAF
Information: Nancy Bigelow, (907) 474-5433

7 p.m. - Gold Room, Fairbanks Westmark Hotel (813 Noble Street, downtown Fairbanks)
Science for Alaska Lecture Series
Some Like It Hot: Volcanoes in the Infrared
Jon Dehn, Geophysical Institute, UAF
Information: http://www.scienceforalaska.com or (907) 474-7558

Wednesday, Jan. 31

3:30 p.m. - Elvey Auditorium, 214 Elvey Building
Institute of Marine Science seminar
Title TBA
Keith Hobson, Prairie & Northern Wildlife Research Center, Canadian Wildlife Service, Saskatoon, Canada
Information: http://www.sfos.uaf.edu

3:30 p.m. - 109 Butrovich (Regents’ Conference Room)
Freshwater ecosystems seminar series
Rapid Evolution and Speciation in the Threespine Stickleback Species Complex
Frank von Hippel, University of Alaska Anchorage
Information: Mark Wipfli, (907) 474-6654

Thursday, Feb. 1

1 p.m. - 106 Chapman Building
Department of Mathematics & Statistics colloquium
A Classical Result Applied to Fractals
Andrei Ghenciu, Department of Mathematics and Statistics, UAF
Information: http://www.math.uaf.edu/dms/Colloquium.html or David Maxwell

3:40-5 p.m. - Globe Room, 215 Elvey Building
Natural Resource Management seminar series--Impacts of a warming climate on natural resource management in Alaska (also NRM 692)
Arctic Climate Change: Evidence, Attribution and Projections
John Walsh, President’s Professor of Global Change and Director, Center for Global Change and Arctic System Research, UAF
Information: Scott Rupp, (907) 474-7535

4-5 p.m. - 201 Natural Sciences Facility
Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry faculty candidate seminar
Fluorinated Surfactants in the Environment
Bryan Boulanger, National Risk Management Research Lab, Cincinnati, candidate for environmental/analytical chemistry position
Information: (907) 474-5510

Friday, Feb. 2

1-2 p.m. - 138 Irving II
Physiology Seminar
Sphingolipid Regulation of Oxidative Stress during Neuroinflammation
Brian Barth, chemistry Ph.D. student
Information: Cord Brundage, (907) 474-5024

3:30 p.m. - Elvey Auditorium, 214 Elvey Building
Life Sciences seminar series, sponsored by the Institute of Arctic Biology and the Department of Biology and Wildlife
Topic and speaker TBA
Information: http://www.iab.uaf.edu/events/events.php or 474-7640/7412

3:30 p.m. - 201 Natural Sciences Facility
Department of Geology and Geophysics seminar
Interactions between Climate and Tectonics in the Eastern Himalaya
Mandy Booth, IPY postdoc, Alaska Stable Isotope Facility, UAF
Information: (907) 474-7565

3:30 p.m. - 535 Duckering Building
Water and Environmental Research Center seminar
Freshwater Runoff from Eastern Greenland
Sebastian Mernild, IPY postdoc, UAF
Information: Douglas L. Kane

3:45 p.m. - Globe Room, 215 Elvey Building
Department of Physics journal club
Check http://ffden-2.phys.uaf.edu/journal_club.htm or call 474-7339 to see if there’s a presentation scheduled for this week and to confirm the location.

EPSCoR Summer Undergraduate Research Awards
Friday, February 23 is the last day to apply for EPSCoR’s summer 2007 undergraduate research awards. These awards are for student-initiated research projects, which may be in any science discipline funded by the National Science Foundation. See http://www.alaska.edu/epscor for full information and an application form.

2007 Global Change Student Grant Competition
Information and application packets are now available for the 2007 Global Change Student Research Grant Competition (http://www.cgc.uaf.edu or pick up from CGC in Room 306 IARC or from the Graduate School, Room 202 Eielson). Application deadline is Friday, Feb. 23, 2007.